Our research will deal with the foundational principles, philosophical presuppositions, and the philosophical contents of physics as well as with the implications of all these problems – shortly with the philosophical questions in physics. The novelty of our approach consists in applying a theoretical framework which reflects the latest developments in philosophy of science. Thus in examining the philosophical questions in physics, we will rely not only or not primarily on traditional positivist notions but on hermeneutics and constructivism as well, situating physics in its historical and social context.

The eventual outcome of our research will be a book which sets out two interrelated goals. First, we intend to depict physics as a science influenced by the historical and social contexts in which it emerges. Secondly, by doing so we make an attempt to demonstrate the analytical strength and usefulness of the conceptual developments in philosophy of science in the last fifty years.

The philosophical questions of physics were considered from a non-traditional view: using a social constructivist and hermeneutic philosophy of science.
Our research had two main lines:
1. Research on philosophy of science: collecting, studying and improving ideas, methodologies, views which can have significance in promising new interpretations of physical problems.
Organizing the conferences of the International Society for Hermeneutics and Science (2010 Vienna, 2013 Vienna and Budapest).
The results of research were published in an online book entitled „Bevezetés a tudományfilozófiába” (An introduction to philosophy of science). The book critically presents the main versions of the recent philosophies of science. Several chapters on the philosophical problems of physics are included into the book as illustrations.
2. Research on philosophical problems of physics: presenting conference lectures, publishing papers in journals and chapters in books on the philosophical questions in classical physics, in quantum physics, in the theory of relativity and cosmology, and on the inter-theory relations, and on many other similar problems.
Organizing the conference Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy in the Interpretations of Relativity Theory (2009 Budapest). More than 40 papers of the conference were published on the webpage and the Proceedings (328 pages) of the conference.
The list of publications of our research contains 43 items at this moment.

Ropolyi László: Crisis development, the postmodern condition, and more, 495-498, in: Civilisation at the Crossroads. Response and Responsibility of the Systems Sciences. Book of Abstracts, EMCSR 2014 - European Meeting on Cybernetics and Syst, 2014

Székely László: Melchior Palágyi and the Four-Dimensional Space-Time: A Philosophico-Hermeneutic Theory of Space-Time by a Philosopher from the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy at the Turn of the 19th-20th Century, pp. 31-33, in: 20th Anniversary Conference of the International Society for Hermeneutics & Science: Vienna, Austria - Budapest, Hungary, 2013, 2013

Székely László: Black holes, closed time-like curvatures, worm-holes and other delicacies of general relativity from a philosophical point of view and Plato's Thaumas, 248-258, in: Székely L. (ed.): Proc. of the conference "Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy in the Interpretations of Relativity, Inst. for Phil. Res., HAS, Budapest, 2009

Ropolyi László: Social relations in the historical versions of dynamical theories, 190-193, in: Székely L. (ed.): Proc. of the conference "Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy in the Interpretations of Relativity, Inst. for Phil. Res. HAS, Budapest, 2009

Ropolyi László: Controversies in Thermodynamics, p. 736 in: XXIII International Congress of History of Science and Technology. Ideas and Instruments in Social Context, Book of Abstracts & List of Participants, Budapest, 2009